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Meanings of circuitous in English

Deviating from a straight course.

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Usage of circuitous in English
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Kelly's remains have made a circuitous journey to their final resting place.
Reuters
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It seems a circuitous way; but it may prove a way nevertheless.
Past and Present
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Which isn't surprising, given the circuitous path it took to our screens.
Wired
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By this circuitous route we always arrive at hope in the end.
Tragic Sense Of Life
5
The light-railway engine pulled the trucks slowly along by winding circuitous routes.
Combed Out
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This circuitous route equaled at least one and a half football fields.
A big little life
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To reach the Sibneft wells, you have to travel a circuitous route.
The Guardian
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Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
9
An immensely circuitous march lay before it ere Prussia could be re-entered.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
10
So we conducted him to our property by a rather circuitous route.
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Yesterday, it was his circuitous and confusing dodge about defeating ISIS online.
Wired
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Gonsalvo obviated this difficulty, however, by a circuitous route across the mountains.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic ...
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His arrival there, 10 years ago, came via a circuitous route.
The Guardian
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Talk about a circuitous route to their most unlikely meeting yet.
The Irish Times
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Few managers have taken such a circuitous route onto European football's greatest stage.
The Irish Times
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The architects were shrewd in making the approach long and circuitous.
The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts an...
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